2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解一百四十集选练：（128）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解一百六十集选练（128）

　　2016高考模拟题。阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。On countless mornings over the past year, I stood with my son, James, in our driveway, watching our neighbor hurry off to kindergarten．My wife and I wanted to give James the best

　　education, but that meant we'd have to change our jobs and spend less time with our kid．I asked myself, "Would this trade-off be worth it?" When I look at the research on child development, I think it might not．Where our kids go to school might matter less than most American parents think．

　　Social scientists have long tried to determine why some children grow up to be successful．In a 2001 study, Greg Duncan, a professor of education at the University of California, measured the influence that the people in a child's life have on how well the child does in school．Duncan and his team found almost no relationship between how students did on the test and whom they sat beside in class, whom they hung out with after school and who lived in their block．The only meaningful link they found was between siblings （兄弟姐妹） and twins in particular．

　　For a long time, scholars thought that a family's income heavily affected how well kids did

　　in life．But that might not be the case．When Susan Mayer at the University of Chicago looked at the relationship between family income and lifetime achievement, she ran a series of experiments to measure it, finding such outcomes weren't caused by income．She argued that the things that make a difference are relatively inexpensive: the number of books a kid has or how often his family goes to museums．

　　Lareau, another scholar began one of the most in-depth observations of American parenting．He concluded that success is much more related to the amount of time parents spend with their children．He said "Many parents I interviewed are anxious about their children's futures．But they have exaggerated（夸大） the sense of the risks involved if they don't give their children 'the best' of everything．"

　　So at last, we decided to leave things as it were．More time with our kid is the best we can provide．

　　．The first paragraph is intended to _．

　　A．introduce the topic of the passage

　　B．confirm the result of a research

　　C．stress the importance of good education

　　D．support a research on child development

　　2．From the passage we know that most American parents _．

　　A．spend a lot of time with their children

　　B．like to buy a variety of books for their children

　　C．think children's achievement largely depends on schools

　　D．believe their income cannot afford children's education

　　．Who believes children's brothers and sisters may influence their academic performance?

　　A．Lareau．

　　B．Greg Duncan．

　　C．Susan Mayer．

　　D．James．

　　．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

　　A．Parents' time matters to children's future．

　　B．School education determines children's future．

　　C．Family income counts to children's achievements．

　　D．Less education means more risks for children's success．

　　—4、BCDA

　　【阅读理解】人物故事类

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps(快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?” He looked perturbed (不安). “Do you want to try it first?” he said. It didn’t quite sound like a question. “Do I need to? “ I replied. “There’s nothing wrong with it? “ This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad. “No, no, But you should try it,” he said encouragingly. “Compare it with the others.”

　　I looked across at the others:　shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly R into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with:　first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.

　　But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers. . . and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.

　　Why do we think that new options (选择) still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the foot that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.

　　1. The shop assistant insisted that the writer should　.　

　　A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it

　　B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others

　　C. get more information about different companies

　　D. trust him and stop asking questions

　　2. What does the writer mean by“it would be worth half what I paid for it” (Paragraph 2)?

　　A. He should get a 50% discount.

　　B. The price of the camera was unreasonably high.

　　C. The quality of the camera was not good.

　　D. The camera would soon fall in value.

　　3. The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he　.　

　　A. knew very little about it

　　B. didn’t trust the shop assistant

　　C. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best

　　D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers

　　4. It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion, 　.　

　　A. people waste too much money on cameras

　　B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life

　　C. we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product

　　D. famous companies care more about profit than quality

　　【参考答案】1—4、 BDCC

　　【由山东省枣庄市2016模拟

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（AB、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。It' s never a real problem for us when the weather gets cold．

　　We have many different was of coping with the cold．We can put on more clothes, stay next to a fireplace, turn on the air conditioner or simply travel to a warmer city to spend the winter．But things are not as easy for plantsnlike humans, plants can’t move to escape the cold or generate heat to keep themselves warm．So how do they manageurvive the freezing winter?

　　The cold is a big challenge for plants．Teir living tissues can be damaged when they freeze．t's like a plant's equivalent(相等物）frostbite（冻疮）．Also，the pcess of freezing and thawing（解冻）can causer bubbles to form in the plant's water transport system．f enough of these air bubbles come together as water thaws they can block the flow of water from the roots to the leaves and kill the plant．

　　To live through cold weather，plants have develop three strategies，Se plants，ch as oak trees, avoid freezing damage by dropping their leaves, before the winter chill sets in-effectively shutting off the flow of water between roots and leaves—and growing new leaves and water transport cells when the warm spring returns. Other plants, pine trees for example, protect them-selves by narrowing their water transport cells, which makes it easier for cells to travel among air bubbles．The third stratef;yi8 also the most extreme．Some plant; die on the ground in winter and start growing as new plants from seeds when conditions get warmer．

　　Howeer, these smart strategies were developed nmry8lowly－over millions of years of evolution．This eads scientists to worry that plants may not be able to deal with human-caused climate change, which has only started occurring over the past few decades．Scientists are hoping o find possible ways to save plants from the threat of climate change．

　　1．What is the text mainly about?

　　A．Different ways for peopkeep warm．

　　B．How plant live through the freezing winter．

　　C．How plants develop the 8tratef;ies to keep warm*

　　D．The ways to save plantsrom the cold,

　　2． the water transport from roots to leaves 18 blocked,

　　．

　　A．the plant will suffer from f'rostbite

　　B．air bubbles will be formed

　　C．the plant's lving tissues will be damaged

　　D．the plant wi be killed

　　3．Ok trees protect themselves by

　　． A．stopping the water transport from rootso leaves

　　B．dropping their eaves to grow seeds

　　C．slowing the flow of water from roots to eaves

　　D．storing enough water in the roots

　　4．What does the undeined phrase “sets in” mean in Paragraph3?

　　A．stops

　　B．

　　C．leaves

　　D．retus

　　5．What ithe main idea of the last paragraph

　　A．Plants can, easily adapt to climate change．

　　B．Scientists are makin to save plants．

　　C．Cimates change is a great threat to plants．

　　D．Plants are developing new stregies to survive．

　　—5、BDADC

　　较难题目特训：介绍说明类

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　“Experience may possibly be the best teacher,but it is not a particularly good teacher.” You might think that Winston Churchill or perhaps Mark Twain spoke those words,but they actually come from James March,a professor at Stanford University and a pioneer in the field of organizational decision making. For years March(possibly the wisest philosopher of management)has studied how humans think and act,and he continues to do so in his new bookThe Ambiguities of Experience.

　　He begins by reminding us of just how firmly we have been sticking to the idea of experiential learning:“Experience is respected;experience is sought;experience is explained.” The problem is that learning from experience involves(涉及)serious complications(复杂化),ones that are part of the nature of experience itself and which March discusses in the body of this book.

　　In one interesting part of the book,for example,he turns a doubtful eye toward the use of stories as the most effective way of experiential learning. In our efforts to make stories interesting,he argues,we lose part of the complicated truth of things. He says “The more accurately(精确地)reality is presented,the less understandable the story,and the more understandable the story,the less realistic it is.”

　　Besides being a broadly knowledgeable researcher,March is also a poet,and his gift shines through in the depth of views he offers and the simple language he uses. Though the book is short,it is demanding:Don’t pick it up looking for quick,easy lessons. Rather,be ready to think deeply about learning from experience in work and life.

　　1. According to the text,James March is　.　

　　A. a poet who uses experience in his writing

　　B. a teacher who teaches story writing in university

　　C. a researcher who studies the way humans think and act

　　D. a professor who helps organizations make important decisions

　　2. According to James March,experience　.　

　　A. is overvalued

　　B. is easy to explain

　　C. should be actively soughtD. should be highly respected

　　3. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

　　A. Experience makes stories more accurate.

　　B. Stories made interesting fail to fully present the truth.

　　C. The use of stories is the best way of experiential learning.

　　D. Stories are easier to understand when reality is more accurately described.

　　4. What’s the purpose of this text?

　　A. To introduce a book.

　　B. To describe a researcher.

　　C. To explain experiential learning.

　　D. To discuss organizational decision making.

　　【参考答案】1-4 CABA